The Hobbit Hole IV – The Road Goes Ever On…

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

The Road Goes Ever On…

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[2Jedismom]

Whew! Glad you got it figured out!

Did you realize you'd made a mistake? Did your blood turn to ice water? I've had that feeling before...realized I made a mistake and starting with my face, my blood just freezes!

I hate it when that happens...

[Wneighbor]

because I haven't felt like I could afford it right now

I know that feeling. Howcome the price increases so drastically as we approach the last of those books?

[Sam Cree]

Isn't Tolkien in print saying that Tom was the spirit of the Oxfordshire countryside?

[JenB]

Good evening! Back from my day. Got my scores back on my last exam... an A... so I'm getting As in two classes at least. Good.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I'll rummage around and see if I can find the article

Here it is!

While the article is an interesting read, I don't think Tolkien ever intended that Tom was really Aule!

[Wneighbor]

That article is like 7 pages long. Are you sure you want to post it?

[Wneighbor]

Oh good. you did better. The link.

I am with you Bear. I don't agree with this assessment that Bombadil is Aule. My first choice of opinions is that he is Vala, but not one of the 14. I think he's one of a large group never named.

[g'nad]

Hey, saw your post of Steve's cake...my kids favorite is a homemade icecream cake. Crumbled up oreo mixed with a little melted butter pressed into the bottom of a springform pan. Freeze for an hour. 1/2 a carton of icecream (sliced about an inch thick and pieced together to make it even) some chopped up candybar...your favorite kind...the other 1/2 of the icecream (i use vanilla. ) Freeze overnight. Flip upside down and release the springform pan...put whipped cream all over the top(i use the can) and add your favorite sprinkle.

mmmm icecream cake...

mrsnad

[osagebowman]

Sam; just finished up "the hundred days" and "the wine dark sea" is next "in the que". enjoyable series.

Wneighbor; hobbies-bows and black powder-both are big on clutter. Got four bows "in process" with that many staves waiting not to mention the arrows.

[Ramius]

Howdy howdy evellybody!!! wassupanstuff? My day is sliding slowly down the drainspout of history...

Have I missed anything? :-)

[g'nad]

g'nad has 3-5 deer taunting him in the yard...

mrsnad

[JenB]

Bombadil isn't Aule... I don't think Tolkien, as a good Catholic, would ever have attempted to put a character who is, well, God the Father, into his story.

[osagebowman]

mrsnad; 3-5 deer "taunting" ? chortle; have you checked the location of gnad and his atl-atl recently? He may have the last laugh.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Keep yer hand off our elf wimmin

[Wneighbor]

hobbies-bows and black powder-both are big on clutter.

It seems like the only hobby I have that isn't big on clutter is reading. And yet, if you call shelves and shelves of books clutter.............

[Wneighbor]

Have I missed anything? :-)

You only missed something if you didn't know yet that I have a new grandson or that Myranda is coming home this Sunday! WN is a happy elf!

[Sam Cree]

Hi Jen.

I have been meaning to tell you that I think JFK was not a great president, and that his cult status annoys me too, to the extent that I think about it.

I was 14, I think, at the time of his assassination, and I remember very well that he was given cult status almost immediately, all sorts of things got named after him right away. Even though I was just a teenager, I really wondered why everyone was calling him a great president, because even though my dad had told me that JFK was "working out pretty well," I didn't see how (and still don't) he had achieved "great" status yet.

My opinion is that this all came more from the fact that, when shot, he was young, and had a (fairly) pretty wife with an exotic French name. Anyhow, I think the psychology involved is much the same as that which causes so many folks to pin so much emotion on Diana and her story.

[Ramius]

Tauntings by deer? Oh, of all the indignities... they deserve what's coming to them.

[Ramius]

I have indeed seen those things!!! Very good!!!

[osagebowman]

wn; naw, books ain't clutter, I prefer to think of it as insulation that you can read.

scott; good pic of a two-fer; it helps with continuity making Legolas ambidextrous.